The New York State case against Luigi Mangione, suspect of the December 4, 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saw its first evidentiary suppression hearing on Monday. The high-stakes hearings are expected to last approximately five days in total, and prosecutors said they may call close to 30 witnesses. The trial is expected to [...]

Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore.  A profound constitutional crisis is gripping Pakistan. Two of the country’s most respected Supreme Court justices, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah, have resigned in protest, declaring that the [...]

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and a lawyer based in Pakistan. On November 13, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan completed a legislative journey that lasted less than a week. Introduced in the Senate on November 10 and approved the same day, the amendment passed through the National Assembly with [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a third-year student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. He has been actively following developments in this discrimination case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal member ruled last week that the government cannot invoke national security laws to indefinitely delay discrimination complaints. The Tribunal decision [...]

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The US Supreme Court heard over two-and-a-half hours of oral argument Wednesday in a closely watched case testing whether the President may use emergency economic powers to impose tariffs [...]

Yu-Yue Cheng is a JURIST correspondent in Taiwan and a law student at National Taiwan University. I attended the 7th annual Taiwan Transgender March on the evening of October 24. Compared to the Taiwan Pride Parade held on the 25th, the Trans March was smaller and less known to the public.  People gathered at the [...]

On Tuesday, October 21, the Speaker of Parliament, Rt.  Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, read to the House a letter endorsed by Ghana’s President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama. The letter, dated October 7, formally announced President Mahama’s nomination of Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie for the position of Chief Justice under Article 144(1) of Ghana’s 1992 [...]

On Saturday, I joined the No Kings Day (NKD) protest in the US state of Pennsylvania. The mood was markedly different from the last protest I attended, in June. Last time, I felt afraid—using that word several times in my June dispatch. So much has changed since then. This time, I felt the opposite: joy, [...]

The sun had barely risen on October 15 when Kenya awoke to the shocking news that its veteran leader, Raila Odinga, had died while in India at the age of 80. According to hospital officials in Kerala, he suffered a heart attack during a morning walk. From that moment, the country entered mourning—not just for [...]

On October 10, Dina Boluarte Medina, then serving as President of Perú, was removed from office after the Congress of the Republic approved a presidential vacancy motion accusing her of moral “incapacity” amid a deepening crisis of organized crime and insecurity across the country. The removal began on October 9, when various groups of legislators [...]